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Rindge was born Rhoda May Knight in 1864, the eighth child of James and Rhoda Roxanna Lathrop Knight. [1] [24] She grew up on a sheep farm outside Trenton, Michigan with 12 siblings. [25] [9] [26] [27] By age 22, she was working as a math teacher at a local schoolhouse. [28] [29] Knight's family was strictly Methodist.
Frederick and wife Rhoda May Knight Rindge's daughter, Rhoda Agatha, commissioned Malibu's Adamson House with her husband, Merritt Adamson. The Rindge family fortune has been valued at US$700 million in 2016 dollars accounting for inflation [8] and were close friends of the Roosevelt family. [9]
Frederick Rindge and his wife, Rhoda May Knight (1864–1941), went to Los Angeles in 1887, when it was still a frontier. There, he was successful in various business ventures, including founding the Conservative Life Insurance Company and the Los Angeles Edison Electric Company. [8] Rindge became one of the wealthiest men in the state.
Rindge was born in Cambridge on December 21, 1857, the only surviving son among the six children of Samuel B. Rindge (1820–1883) and Clarissa Harrington (December 8, 1822 – January 4, 1885). [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] His siblings, including a brother named Henry and a sister named Mary, [ 9 ] all died of scarlet fever , also known as rheumatic fever.
Malibu Potteries was founded by Rhoda May Knight Rindge in 1926. [2] A fire devastated the company 30 September 1931, and the company closed in 1932. Tile designs included influences the styles of Moorish, Egyptian, Mayan and Saracen cultures. Many of the tile designs were geometric.
Rhoda Agatha Rindge Adamson (April 20, 1893 – April 2, 1962) also known as Rhoda Agatha Adamson or simply Rhoda Adamson, was the co-founder and secretary-treasurer [1] of Adohr Farms and Adohr Dairy & Creamery, one of Southern California's largest and most successful dairies.
After the death of her husband, Rhoda Rindge Adamson continued to live in the house until her own death in April 1962. [4] After her death, her heirs announced plans to build a $10–12 million "deluxe Waikiki -type beach resort" on the 13-acre (53,000 m 2 ) site, while preserving the house as an art and history museum.
Frederick H. Rindge (1857—1905), American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and writer; Frederick H. Rindge (entomologist) (fl. 1981), entomologist who named Nemeris sternitzkyi, a geometrid moth in the family Geometridae; Rhoda May Knight Rindge (1864–1941), American businesswoman; Rhoda Agatha Rindge Adamson (1893–1963), American businesswoman